Solarflare SFN7x24F network adapters Quick Start Guide
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1.1 Overview
The Solarflare Flareon™ SFN7000 series quad-port SFP+ server I/O adapters
combine precision time synchronization, hardware timestamping and network
server security with ultra low latency 10G Ethernet. Flareon™ adapters with
AppFlex™ technology provide a flexible platform to deliver specific on-board
services with a single server adapter.
To learn more about AppFlex tech]nology licensing, visit
User Guide
For comprehensive installation instructions, configuration and tuning guidance, and
AppFlex information please consult the
Solarflare Server Adapter User Guide
.
The Solarflare User Guide can be downloaded from
https://support.solarflare.com
Drivers
Solarflare server adapters support the following OS distributions; Linux RHEL6, 7
and MRG, SLES11, 12 and SLERT, Ubuntu 14.04, 14.10 and 15.04, Debian 7.0 and
8.0, Linux KVM, VMware ESXi 5.5 and 6.x, Windows Server 2008 R2 and later
versions.
Drivers can be downloaded from
https://support.solarflare.com
Onload
Solarflare server adapters also support Onload – a ‘kernel bypass’ accelerated user-
level TCP/IP network stack, providing extremely low latency. Onload links with the
application using the standard POSIX BSD sockets API, meaning no modifications are
required to the application being accelerated. Onload is enabled via AppFlex
licensing.
To learn more about Onload please visit
Precision Time Protocol
Flareon™ Ultra adapters are equipped with a Stratum 3 oscillator to support
hardware timestamping of PTP packets and server synchronization. Solarflare’s
Enhanced PTP is enabled via AppFlex licensing, and can synchronize multiple
adapters to a PTP source.
Solarflare’s Enhanced PTP daemon is available from